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Richard Bernstein The New York Times By the time you have finished [Pillar of Fire], you feel almost as if you have relieved the era, not just read about it.

James Goodman The Boston Globe This is jet-propelled history.

Jeff Shesol The Washington Post Politics and personalities, ambition and imagination, triumph and tragedy.

David M. Shribman The Wall Street Journal One part biography, one part history, one part elegy...a vast panorama...powerful.

Jon Meacham Newsweek Pillar of Fire is a magisterial history of one of the most tumultuous periods in postwar America. Branch's storytelling is strong, his storytelling colorful. Reading Branch, it is easier to see why even the most remarkable revolutions are never complete.

Alan Wolfe The New York Times Book Review As he did in Parting the Waters, Branch brings to these events both a passion for their detail and a recognition of their larger historical significance.

Scott Ellsworth The Oregonian Magnificent...the birth of a masterwork akin to Carl Sandburg's Lincoln or Shelby Foote's Civil War.

Ray Jenkins The Baltimore Sun Branch has an uncanny ability to penetrate the most obscure nooks and crannies of the past to provide a whole new perpective on the Sixties...

Bill Maxwell St. Petersburg Times Pillar of Fire, a history of symbiosis and epiphany, records King's vision and the disparate moral currents that forced America to redefine itslef in light of its failures to live up to its own principles of freedom.

Trevor Coleman Detroit Free Press The strength of Pillar of Fire lies in Branch's unsurpassed ability to bring the reader into the moment, enabling one to almost feel the tension of the times.

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In the second volume of the three-part history, a monumental trilogy that began with PARTING THE WATERS, winner of the Pulitzer Prize Taylor Branch portrays the Civil Rights Movement at its zenith, recounting the climactic struggles as they commanded the national stage. Beginning where PARTING THE WATERS left off with the death of JFK, PILLAR OF FIRE recounts the rise of the movement that stirred from Southern black churches to challenge the national conscience.
PILLAR OF FIRE covers the far-flung upheavals of the years 1963-1965, including Dallas, St. Augustine, Mississippi Freedom Summer, LBJ's Great Society and the Civil Rights Act of 1963, Vietnam and Selma. Taylor provides a frank portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr. revealing him to be haunted by blackmail, factionalism, and hatred while he tried to hold the non-violent movement together as a dramatic force in history. Allies, rivals, and opponents addressed racial issues that went deeper than fair treatment at bus stops or lunch counters. Participants on all sides stretched themselves and their country to the breaking point over the meaning of simple words: dignity, equal votes, equal souls.

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�diteurS & S International
Date d'�dition1998
ISBN 10 0684808196
ISBN 13 9780684808192
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Description du livre Hardcover. Etat : New. Etat de la jaquette : New. First. New first edition hardcover with two-toned paper to boards and with copper lettering to spine and embossed title to front cover. New dust jacket. 8vo. (6.75 x 1.5 x 10 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. B&W photo plates. Includes a list of abbreviations, notes, major sources cites and an index. 768 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. In Pillar of Fire, the second volume of his America in the King Years trilogy, Taylor Branch portrays the civil rights era at its zenith. The first volume, Parting the Waters, won the Pulitzer Prize for History. It is a monumental chronicle of a movement that stirred from Southern black churches to challenge the national conscience during the Eisenhower and Kennedy years. In this masterly continuation of the narrative, Branch recounts the climactic struggles as they commanded the national and international stage. Pillar of Fire covers the far-flung upheavals of the years 1963 to 1965 -- Dallas, St. Augustine, Mississippi Freedom Summer, LBJ's Great Society and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Vietnam, Selma. And it provides a frank, revealing portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr. -- haunted by blackmail, factionalism, and hatred while he tried to hold the nonviolent movement together as a dramatic force in history. Allies, rivals, and opponents addressed racial issues that went deeper than fair treatment at bus stops or lunch counters. Participants on all sides stretched themselves and their country to the breaking point over the meaning of simple words: dignity, equal votes, equal souls. Branch's gallery of historic characters also includes: Malcolm X, who challenged King's vision of nonviolent integration and lived under threat of death from the Nation of Islam. Lyndon Johnson, who believed racial conflict was destroying his political base in the South and threatening his dream to end poverty. J. Edgar Hoover, under whose direction the FBI, with Attorney General Robert Kennedy's approval, spied on King with wiretaps and bugs, and yet solved the most heinous racial crimes of the era. Diane Nash, the passionate leader behind sit-ins and Freedom Rides, whose determination shaped the Selma voting rights movement. Abraham Heschel, the Hasidic theologian who bonded with King in devotion to the Hebrew prophets. Robert Moses, the Mississippi SNCC leader who finally came undone over the human suffering caused by his Freedom Summer. Fannie Lou Hamer, a sharecropper who commanded a powerful voice for the unlettered. Pillar of Fire takes readers inside the dramas that shook every American institution, from the local pulpit to the Presidency. We disappear with courageous young people into Mississippi's feudal Parchman Penitentiary. We absorb the shock of a single Presidential election in 1964 that revolutionized the structure of partisan politics. We follow Northern rabbis summoned by King, and Mary Peabody, mother of the governor of Massachusetts, into the segregated jails of St. Augustine, Florida. We witness the Shakespearean conflicts between Lyndon Johnson and King and Hoover and Robert Kennedy. Branch brings to bear fifteen years of research -- archival investigation; nearly two thousand interviews: new primary sources, from FBI wiretaps to White House telephone recordings -- in a seminal work of history. Pillar of Fire captures the intensity of the legendary King years, when the movement broke down walls between races, regions, sexes, and religions, and between America and the larger world. Its struggle to rescue and redeem, its victories and defeats, its failings and sacrifices gave rise to opposing tides that still dominate the national debate about justice and democratic government. The story of this movement is an incandescent chapter in America's distinctive quest for freedom. N� de r�f. du vendeur 201100

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Description du livre Hardcover. Etat : New. Etat de la jaquette : New. 1st Edition. NEW: MONUMENTAL: INCANDESCANT: MASTERLY: REVEALING: FRANK: CLIMATIC: INTENSE: NEW First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1998) w/ full no. line at "1", NEW unclipped mylar-protected jacket showing orig. $30.00 pub. price, NEW cover w black fabric wrapping spine & extending 1.36" onto front & back panels covered in matte-gray paper w/ titles copper-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE matching gray card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior BEAUTIFULLY printed on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * 6.36" x 9.50" x 1.68", 1.16 kg, xiv+746 (760) * ABOUT THE BOOK: In 'Pillar of Fire', the 2nd vol. of his 'America in the King Years' trilogy, Taylor Branch portrays the civil rights era at its zenith. The first volume, 'Parting the Waters', won the Pulitzer Prize for History. It is a MONUMENTAL chronicle of a movement that stirred from Southern black churches to challenge the national conscience during the Eisenhower & Kennedy years. In this MASTERLY continuation of the narrative, Branch recounts the CLIMATIC struggles as they commanded the national & international stage. 'Pillar of Fire' covers the far-flung upheavals of the years 1963 to 1965--Dallas, St. Augustine, Mississippi Freedom Summer, LBJ's Great Society, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Vietnam, & Selma. And it provides a FRANK, REVEALING portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr., haunted by blackmail, factionalism & hatred while he tried to hold the nonviolent movement together as a dramatic force in history. Allies, rivals & opponents addressed racial issues that went deeper than fair treatment at bus stops or lunch counters. Participants on all sides stretched themselves & their country to the breaking point over the meaning of simple words: dignity, equal votes, equal souls. Branch's gallery of historic characters also includes: (a) Malcolm X, who challenged King's vision of nonviolent integration & lived under threat of death from the Nation of Islam; (b) Lyndon Johnson, who believed racial conflict was destroying his political base in the South & threatening his dream to end poverty; (c) J. Edgar Hoover, under whose direction the FBI, w/ Attorney General Robert Kennedy's approval, spied on King w/ wiretaps & bugs, & yet solved the most heinous racial crimes of the era; (d) Diane Nash, the passionate leader behind sit-ins & Freedom Rides, whose determination shaped the Selma voting rights movement; (e) Abraham Heschel, the Hasidic theologian who bonded w/ King in devotion to the Hebrew prophets; (f) Robert Moses, the Mississippi SNCC leader who finally came undone over the human suffering caused by his Freedom Summer; (g) Fannie Lou Hamer, a sharecropper who commanded a powerful voice for the unlettered. 'Pillar of Fire' takes readers inside the dramas that shook every American institution, from the local pulpit to the Presidency. We disappear w/ courageous young people into Mississippi's feudal Parchman Penitentiary. We absorb the shock of a single Presidential election in 1964 that revolutionized the structure of partisan politics. We follow Northern rabbis summoned by King & Mary Peabody, mother of the governor of Massachusetts, into the segregated jails of St. Augustine, Florida. We witness the Shakespearean conflicts between Lyndon Johnson & King & Hoover & Robert Kennedy. Branch brings to bear 15 years of research--archival investigation; nearly 2,000 interviews: new primary sources, from FBI wiretaps to White House telephone recordings--in a seminal work of history. 'Pillar of Fire' captures the intensity of the legendary King years, when the movement broke down walls between races, regions, sexes & religions, & between America & the larger world. Its struggle to rescue & redeem, its victories & defeats, its failings & sacrifices gave rise to opposing tides that still dominate the national debate about justice & democratic government. The story of this movement is an INCANDESCENT chapter in America's distinctive quest for freedom. N� de r�f. du vendeur 009841

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